AREOPAGITICA
A SPEECH
FOR THE LIBERTY OF UNLICENSED PRINTING TO THE
PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND
BY
JOHN MILTON
- Τοὐλεύθερον δ᾽ ἐκεῖνο, τίς θέλει πόλει
- Χρηστόν τι βούλευμ᾽ ἐς μέσον φέρειν ἔχων.
- Καὶ ταῦθ᾽ ὁ χρῄζων, λαμπρός ἐσθ᾽, ὁ μὴ θέλων
- Σιγᾷ, τί τούτων ἔστ᾽ ἰσαίτερον πόλει;
- Euripid. Hicetid.
- This is true Liberty when free born men
- Having to advise the public may speak free.
- Which he who can, and will, deservs high praise.
- Who neither can nor will, may hold his peace,
- What can bejuster in a State than this?
- Euripid. Hicetid.
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